On Nov 30, 2007 7:57 AM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben: It seems to take tots a damn lot of trials to learn basic skills > > Sure. My point is partly that human learning must be pretty quantifiable in > terms of number of times a given action is practised,
Definitely NOT ... it's very hard to quantify when a child is practicing crawling versus just rehearsing the component arm/leg movements, wiggling around, etc. I can imagine that quantifying this sort of thing in a really meaningful way must be fairly difficult... > & I wonder whether > anyone's counting. I agree it's a worthwhile effort, though. I don't think anyone has counted this sort of thing because it would require constant surveillance of the child. The data being gathered in Deb Roy's Human Speechome project should actually be useful for this -- he's got a video camera on his young child nearly 24 hours a day... -- Ben ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=70743699-cc240c
